driving on expressway

• Darkknighthuang

  22 Jul 10, 02:42

  I have a disagreement with my friend:

  While driving on the extreme right lane on the expressway, if I am doing above the speed limit, I do not think I need to move over to the inner lane, to allow any cars coming up behind me, to overtake. My friend thinks I should.

  I want to tell my friend what most drivers think. Tks,

• Meia Gisborn

  22 Jul 10, 03:03

  Originally posted by Darkknighthuang:

  I have a disagreement with my friend:

  While driving on the extreme right lane on the expressway, if I am doing above the speed limit, I do not think I need to move over to the inner lane, to allow any cars coming up behind me, to overtake. My friend thinks I should.

  I want to tell my friend what most drivers think. Tks,

  
  Your friend is correct.

  The speed limit is irrelevant; common courtesy (and plain common sense) would dictate that you give way to faster vehicles coming up from behind you. It is not your duty to enforce speed limits on the roads by acting as a rolling roadblock.

  What if an emergency vehicle with its lights and siren activated wanted to pass you? Would you refuse to yield?

• Just_do_it_lah

  22 Jul 10, 05:13

  I could normally move aside, filter left into centre or left lanes, (if i see a vehicle from behind coming close to my butt), provided that if there isn't any cars on the left.

  Sometimes, not only emergency vehicles like ambulances or other QX cars, wanted to pass you, ppl rushing will normally (flash a beam or 2)...  They may need to attend to something important or rushing to Hospital... hence what goes around, comes around...  You will also appreciate if the car infront "give-way" to you when you really desperate for that few seconds.....

  Moving aside is nothing... just courtesy.. but do it on a safe way... (check blind spot) before filtering in....

  have been driving for almost 15 years.... so, it has becum a habit to move aside if the vehicle behind needed to pass.... FAST !!

   

• jgho83

  22 Jul 10, 05:41

  TS,

  It is good practise to filter back to center or left lanes if u are not going any faster. Whenever u got the chance, u should do it.

  If u wan to use the right lane... can.... but remember to change lane if u spot a faster car behind u. Or else be prepared to get a stare from that driver who can go faster than u your left.

  Your friend should be driving on the road for much longer time than u right? 

• Xcert

  22 Jul 10, 09:59

  Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:

  I could normally move aside, filter left into centre or left lanes, (if i see a vehicle from behind coming close to my butt), provided that if there isn't any cars on the left.

  Sometimes, not only emergency vehicles like ambulances or other QX cars, wanted to pass you, ppl rushing will normally (flash a beam or 2)...  They may need to attend to something important or rushing to Hospital... hence what goes around, comes around...  You will also appreciate if the car infront "give-way" to you when you really desperate for that few seconds.....

  Moving aside is nothing... just courtesy.. but do it on a safe way... (check blind spot) before filtering in....

  have been driving for almost 15 years.... so, it has becum a habit to move aside if the vehicle behind needed to pass.... FAST !!

   

  agree...I dunno about people here but as a person who had to get to a hospital fast once...I appreciate people moving out of the right most lane.

   

  Personally as a driver...I move aside...especially if they come up fast with high beams and hazard lights on.

• QX179R

  22 Jul 10, 10:05

  slower vehicles plz always keep left..
  and if I'm not wrong, the right lane is an overtaking lane..

  and yes, plz drive with a heart & give way to emergency ambulances..

• the Bear

  22 Jul 10, 10:08

  no hazard lights, no high beam, as long as the guy is faster than me, i'm going to give way and filter left for the guy to pass..

  it's just road courtesy...

  what i'm pissed off with are people who hog the right lane and drive slightly less than or exactly the speed limit... and clog up the whole expressway...

  and i'm severely pissed off with the idiots who drive on the right lane and maintain 70km/h, oblivious to everything and everyone's got to attempt to pass them on the left

• ditzy

  22 Jul 10, 10:09

  If a car behind me is coming up faster than me, I move into the inner lane and let it pass. Otherwise, it'll tailgate me make me nervous and make me crash.

• Xcert

  22 Jul 10, 10:17

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  no hazard lights, no high beam, as long as the guy is faster than me, i'm going to give way and filter left for the guy to pass..

  it's just road courtesy...

  what i'm pissed off with are people who hog the right lane and drive slightly less than or exactly the speed limit... and clog up the whole expressway...

  and i'm severely pissed off with the idiots who drive on the right lane and maintain 70km/h, oblivious to everything and everyone's got to attempt to pass them on the left

  agree...

  unfortunately sometimes these people also show up in middle lanes...few weeks back at the expressway outside sports school....centre lane got this car with passengers...happily cruising at 70...long queue behind...right lane got cars....left lane got heavy vehicles but not that clogged up...die die dun want to move to the left...NBz...left lane got ghosts ar....want to do 70 got back to driving school lar...think driving schools should also introduce expressway driving course for people...

• Just_do_it_lah

  22 Jul 10, 13:28

  Originally posted by Xcert:

  agree...

  unfortunately sometimes these people also show up in middle lanes...few weeks back at the expressway outside sports school....centre lane got this car with passengers...happily cruising at 70...long queue behind...right lane got cars....left lane got heavy vehicles but not that clogged up...die die dun want to move to the left...NBz...left lane got ghosts ar....want to do 70 got back to driving school lar...think driving schools should also introduce expressway driving course for people...

  
  driving schools speed limits on at 60km.  lol.

• Just_do_it_lah

  22 Jul 10, 13:29

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  If a car behind me is coming up faster than me, I move into the inner lane and let it pass. Otherwise, it'll tailgate me make me nervous and make me crash.

  
  so .. how many times you crashed already ??

• Just_do_it_lah

  22 Jul 10, 13:31

  Originally posted by the Bear:

   

  and i'm severely pissed off with the idiots who drive on the right lane and maintain 70km/h, oblivious to everything and everyone's got to attempt to pass them on the left

  
  if are u refering to KPE ... then you need to take a lot of Ja Ja Herbal Tea to cool down.... lol.

• Xcert

  22 Jul 10, 15:44

  Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:

  
  driving schools speed limits on at 60km.  lol.

  I didnt know that...was encouraged to go until 70 when I was learning...

• Just_do_it_lah

  22 Jul 10, 16:41

  Originally posted by Xcert:

  I didnt know that...was encouraged to go until 70 when I was learning...

  ok.. i didn't update then... my (last) practical lesson with school was at least 16years ago... lol. 

• the Bear

  22 Jul 10, 16:57

  i remember my instructor falling asleep so i went back to the pick-up point.. that was in early 1989 

  (i'm showing my decrepitude here) 

• Xcert

  22 Jul 10, 17:24

  Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:

  ok.. i didn't update then... my (last) practical lesson with school was at least 16years ago... lol. 

  mine isnt that recent either...11 years.

• Just_do_it_lah

  22 Jul 10, 17:28

  haha.. maybe my "si fu" want to sleep while i was driving (round & round a designated place)...... Bear... we may have the same instructor... lol.

• Poignant

  22 Jul 10, 17:30

  your friend 1 - 0 you

• Darkknighthuang

  22 Jul 10, 22:47

  Ok, I concede. I'll let my friend know the results and I guess 'humble' me would have to eat the pie.

  Thanks for all the responses,

  "Make your way home safely, for your loved ones"

• jgho83

  23 Jul 10, 03:24

  Originally posted by Darkknighthuang:

  Ok, I concede. I'll let my friend know the results and I guess 'humble' me would have to eat the pie.

  Thanks for all the responses,

  "Make your way home safely, for your loved ones"

  at least u got pie to eat. your fren goes hungry 

• Darkknighthuang

  24 Jul 10, 00:42

  Originally posted by jgho83:

  at least u got pie to eat. your fren goes hungry 

   

  My friend would rather go hungry than lose an argument.

   

  Drive Safely guys, watch out for pedestrians, cylists and also falling trees.

• mh2

  24 Jul 10, 19:22

  however,

  driving within the speed limit on second lane is ok.

  even when the first lane is cruising at 60, the third lane is packed.

   

• lojo

  24 Jul 10, 21:45

  if your car is at the left most lane (left turn lane) and there are no other lane on your left, and the lorry behind you is almost kissing your butt....have to move to right lane? assume speed is 70km/h, there is a lorry in front of your car and you wanted to turn left

• QX179R

  24 Jul 10, 21:48

  Originally posted by Darkknighthuang:

   

   

  "Make your way home safely, for your loved ones"

  iirc, I ever saw this being displayed on the EMAS..

• AEW5001

  24 Jul 10, 21:50

  Originally posted by lojo:

  if your car is at the left most lane (left turn lane) and there are no other lane on your left, and the lorry behind you is almost kissing your butt....have to move to right lane? assume speed is 70km/h, there is a lorry in front of your car and you wanted to turn left

  
  as long as u switch on your signals and do not brake hard, u shld generally be fine.